About the Instructor:
Stephen R. Palumbi, Ph.D.,
is the Jane and Marshall Steel Professor of Marine Science in the Biology Department of Stanford University at the Hopkins Marine Station in Monterey. His research focuses on using genomic tools to understand, conserve and restore marine populations from whales to sharks to corals. His research has appeared in over 200 publications, and been featured in outlets from the New York Times to the Seattle His film projects include the PBS series Big Pacific, BBC series The Future Is Wild, the History channel’s Life after People, and the Short Attention Span Science Theater. He the author of Extreme Life of the Sea (with Anthony Palumbi), The Death and Life of Monterey Bay (with Caroyln Sotka) and The Evolution Explosion: How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Change. Website: http://palumbi.stanford.edu/